Men's Basketball | 11/24/2016 2:55:00 PM
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NORMAN, Okla. — ACU returns to the road Friday when the Wildcats take on the Oklahoma Sooners in an afternoon matinee at the Lloyd Noble Center on the OU campus.
The Wildcats and Sooners will tip off at 2 p.m. and the can be heard locally on 98.1 FM The Ticket (98theticket.com online). Fans can also watch the game on Fox Sports Oklahoma or online at foxsportsgo.com. The Wildcats enter the game at 2-1, while the Sooners are 3-1 and coming off a third-place finish in the Tire Pros Invitational in Orlando, Fla.
The Sooners — who reached the Final Four in 2015-16 –– are back at home for the second time this season. Oklahoma has won 123 of its last 128 non-conference games at Lloyd Noble Center, including 57 of its last 59. The Sooners are 31-2 at home and 60-15 overall against non-conference opponents under Kruger. OU is 20-1 at the LNC in out-of-conference play since 2013.
OU leads the all-time series against ACU 2-0 with the last meeting coming on Dec. 6, 1982, when the Sooners toppled the Wildcats, 110-61, behind 51 points from late OU all-America forward Wayman Tisdale.
ACU is coming off a heartbreaking 66-65 home loss Tuesday night to Charleston Southern. The Buccaneers scored with four seconds to play to take a one point lead and held on to win. Those final four seconds constituted Charleston Southern's only lead of the night as ACU led for the first 39:56 of the contest.
Sophomore forward
Jaren Lewis led the Wildcats with 18 points and pulled down five rebounds, while redshirt freshman center
Jalone Friday had 12 points and seven rebounds off the bench. Sophomore guard
Jaylen Franklin and sophomore center
Hayden Howell had 12 points apiece for the Wildcats.
Lewis is the Wildcats' leading scorer at 14.3 points per game, while senior guard
Jovan Crnic is averaging 11.3 ppg and Friday is at 10.3 ppg. Friday is also the team's leading rebounder at 7.0 rpg.
Through four games, OU senior guard Jordan Woodard enters Friday's game with 109 consecutive collegiate starts, tied for the most among current NCAA Division I players. Woodard is one of just four players in NCAA Division I to hold a current starting streak of at least 105 games. A 2015-16 All-Big 12 honorable mention selection, Woodard was the team's second-leading scorer last season with averages of 13.0 points (10th in Big 12), 3.4 assists (ninth), 3.0 rebounds and 1.6 steals (fifth) in 29.8 minutes.
The Big 12 coaches voted Woodard a preseason all-Big 12 honorable mention selection ahead of the 2016-17 season. Through four games, the guard is averaging 18.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 2.5 steals.
